It's all happening on blogTO right now.

Yesterday afternoon I went to see Off-side, the second film I've seen with that title in under nine months, and a decent if unspectacular tween drama from the Netherlands. Hella lot of cursing though, and sex talk from the kiddies, which lead to the walk-outs. Man if you can program a flick at Sprockets that's causing walk-outs, I'd say you're really getting somewhere.

After that I had some time to kill so I bought some Spider-Man comics and went to read them on the Pauper's patio in the unexpected springtime sunshine, where I promptly got Basic Instincted by a supremely drunk girl in a short black dress. She was there with her boyfriend and they were on maybe the fifth or sixth beer apiece by the time I arrived, and they were all into each other at every moment, except for when he would get on his cell phone. So at one point he gets on his phone and she looks over at me with my Spider-Man comic, and unfolds her legs revealing the entire lack of underwear going on below her waist. Holds the position till he gets off the phone and then folds up again. So I guess spring has officially sprung, being as that I'm mooning around like a 10th-grader on happy purple pills, and girls are dressing like they're on their way to a semi-formal, minus the undies.

Hey, speaking of comics: new to the blog-crawl, and best new blog title I've read lately, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed). Now, my idea of hot in comics is Serenity Rose, not Black Widow, so I'm already predisposed to raise some of the flags that this blogger now seems to have dedicated a regular chunk of her life to, so bravo to her. And besides, girls reading comics is hot. So hot!

And speaking of girls: GIRLS ROCK!!! Oh man, I've been looking forward to this thing like crazy all week. I was phenomenally disappointed to learn that this movie is receiving a very narrow release and not until next year at that; the flick should be required viewing for... uh well I was going to say something else but let's go with "everyone." Yep this was definitely the best I've seen at Hot Docs so far, in the "saw it, loved it, got a poster to prove it" sort of way.

My review of that, plus geek-chic fetish must-see Helvetica, are up here... and I just noticed it's also linked on the Girls Rock site. Why? Because I rock. In a decidedly girly fashion.

Got one last Sprocket and two more docs tonight, then a few days off from the film viewing. I'm working from home tomorrow so that I can nip out and cover the TIFF groundbreaking in the afternoon, which won't really allow me an opportunity to bag any extra sleep, but will at least let me spend the morning in my jammies eating toast.